Macromolecular Compounds

The programme is aimed at comprehensive and high-quality training of academic staff in the following areas: 

• Molecular design and synthesis of new monomers, polymers and macromolecular systems 
• Molecular physics of polymer chains, their configurations and conformations, sizes and shapes of macromolecules, mass-molecular distribution of polymers 
• Development of new and improvement of existing methods of polymer synthesis, investigation of polymerisation processes and mechanisms 
• Catalysis in polymer chemistry, development of polymeric materials with new functions and intelligent structures based on them, for application in various branches of science and technology 
• Chemical transformations of polymers 
• Study of self-organisation processes of polymers and macromolecular systems, design of self-organising polymers to create new functional materials for various purposes, study of molecular and supramolecular structure of bioorganic polymers 
• Identification of the specific factors that cause their self-organisation and extension of the found regularities to the field of synthetic polymers 
• Development and verification of model ideas about the behaviour of polymers and multicomponent polymer systems in solution and condensed state 
• Improvement of existing and development of new methods for studying the structure and physico-chemical properties of polymers in different states 
• Essential features and physical properties of linear, branched, including hyperbranched, and cross-linked polymers, their configuration (at the link, chain, link attachment, and block attachment levels) and conformation
• Consideration of the influence of factors determining conformational transitions 
• The role of interfacial boundaries 
• Supramolecular structure and structural modification of polymers 
• Solution of theoretical problems related to modelling of molecular and supramolecular structure of oligomers, polymers and copolymers in solutions, melts and polymer solids in amorphous, semi-crystalline and crystalline states 
• Development of model representations of polymer and polymer blends with functional ingredients and their applications 
• Physical states and phase transitions in high molecular weight compounds; and 
• Rheology of polymers and composites